The game mechanics, formulas and constants

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by SlowThinker
My problem is I almost understand how the happiness works...
There is Empire Happiness (EH) that is shown on the empire manager and depends on sliders of Rations, Workday and Wages.

That's right that the empire happiness is influenced by the sliders, but you draw the wrong concluions.

Originally posted by SlowThinker
EH serves as a base happiness for cities: increases and decreases are shown for each city under the Status tab.
Am I right?

To make it short: No.

Originally posted by SlowThinker
...but what I don't understand is how exactly is defined the EH:

Here is your problem. The empire happiness is just the avarage happiness of your cities. Sum up the happiness of all your cities and devide it by the number of your cities. And finally round it.

Originally posted by SlowThinker
When going through the .txt files I was curious what is this:
VERY_HAPPY_THRESHOLD 85 # threshold at which a city is considered "very happy"
Does it cause any effect?

Except there is no crime and that your city is celebrating there is no effect.

-Martin

[SlowThinker]

Now I feel fine!
Almost fine...:

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
Except there is no crime and that your city is celebrating there is no effect.

Celebrating means no crime ? No other effect?

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by SlowThinker
Celebrating means no crime ? No other effect?

Well in CTP1 there was an effect, reduced amount of needed food. I found it in some dead CTP1 code in the source code.

But in CTP2 you just have the crime effect. Of course with the right mod that can be very powerfull.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann


Well in CTP1 there was an effect, reduced amount of needed food. I found it in some dead CTP1 code in the source code.

But in CTP2 you just have the crime effect. Or why do you think we exploid our people. Of course with the right mod that can be very powerfull.

-Martin

[SlowThinker]

Thx very much for explanations.